Motivational Quotes

Art

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Art

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art, that great undogmatized church.